Israel Gelfand, the student of Kolmogorov (the Russian equivalent of
Gauss), created in 1964 the famous VZMSh, a national Math Correspondence School.
He wrote: "4 important traits which are common to Math, Music, and
other arts and sciences:
1st Beauty
2nd Simplicity
3rd Precision
4th Crazy ideas.
"
The Russian mathematicians also built special Math-Physics schools:
Moscow School #7, #2, #57 (one of the best high school in the world, www.sch57.msk.ru) Leningrad Schools #30, #38, #239 (Perelman studied here)
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Showing posts with label Perelman. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Sunday, 31 March 2013
IMO Super-coach: Rukshin
Rukshin at 15 was a troubled russian kid with drink and violence, then a miracle happened: He fell in love with Math and turned all his creative, aggressive, and competitive energies toward it.
He tried to compete in Math olympiads, but outmatched by peers. Still he believed he knew how to win; he just could not do it himself.
He formed a team of schoolchildren a year younger than he and trained them.
At 19 he became an IMO coach who produced Perelman (Gold IMO & Fields/Clay Poincare Conjecture). In the decades since, his students took 70 IMO, include > 40 Golds.
Rukshin's thoughts on IMO:
1. IMO is more like a sport. It has its coaches, clubs, practice sessions, competitions.
2. Natural ability is necessary but NOT sufficient for success: The talented kid needs to have the right coach, the right team, the right kind of family support, and, most important, the WILL to win.
3. At the beginning, it is nearly impossible to tell the difference between future (Math) stars and those who will be good (at IMO) but never great (Mathematician).
He tried to compete in Math olympiads, but outmatched by peers. Still he believed he knew how to win; he just could not do it himself.
He formed a team of schoolchildren a year younger than he and trained them.
At 19 he became an IMO coach who produced Perelman (Gold IMO & Fields/Clay Poincare Conjecture). In the decades since, his students took 70 IMO, include > 40 Golds.
Rukshin's thoughts on IMO:
1. IMO is more like a sport. It has its coaches, clubs, practice sessions, competitions.
2. Natural ability is necessary but NOT sufficient for success: The talented kid needs to have the right coach, the right team, the right kind of family support, and, most important, the WILL to win.
3. At the beginning, it is nearly impossible to tell the difference between future (Math) stars and those who will be good (at IMO) but never great (Mathematician).
Perelman rejected Fields Medal & $1m Clay Prize
1. Perelman first published his Poincaré Conjecture proof at this site: http://arxiv.org/
2. After the USA study trip where he was attracted by Prof Hamilton's attempted proof with 'Ricci Flow', Perelman rejected a Harvard Professor job offer, returned to Russia to prove the Conjecture in isolation for 8 yrs as a low-pay free researcher.
“Absorbing the problem in its entirety and then boiling it down to an essence that proved simpler than everyone had assumed.”
3. In 2006 he rejected both Fields medal and US$1 m Clay Prize!
4. He won 1982 IMO Gold at 16 with full mark (42/42).
Perelman explained to the Math Olympiad jury his solution, who gave him full mark. Before the jury walked away, Perelman said: "Wait, I have 3 more solutions to this question!"
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